Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

A friend of mine recently burned out on maintaining open-source software and communities, and had been half-joking for a while that they wanted a sassy license to the effect of "I release this code for free, take it or leave it, or go do it yourself".

Tonight I wrote that license for and with him. Please enjoy the "Fork Off" Public License, v0.9: https://github.com/klardotsh/fork-off-public-license

(I'll tag a v1.0 after any feedback y'all might have to clarify things or make it funnier. Forking it is also of course ok.)

In Jacky Zhao's article on Agentic Computing, Jacky writes "Maybe we bring back the philosophy of LANs, but rather than networks based around closeness in physical distance bounded by routers, we created networks based around closeness in social and trust space?" What are your thoughts on this? What are some ways we can bring back "trust" in computing? https://jzhao.xyz/posts/agentic-computing/

Tired: Organizing the world's information and making it universally accessible and useful.

Wired: Owning the web and middle-manning every interaction in the world, thus maximizing ad revenue.

Inspired: Using ML to middleman the whole idea of knowledge into an unreliable stochastic word-slurry so people need to quadruple-check every piece of information they ever want or need by clicking around to dozens of other sources, thus maximizing ad revenue.

Shared by my Daughter
"I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgement and intentions are"

In response to "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear"

If all y'all want to take away any one lesson from watching site after site enshittify, it should be this:

Never. Trust. The. Money. Men.

Sooner or later, they're going to demand you take your great product that you worked so hard on, all the users and communities you've carefully built, and squeeze all the joy and life out of them in exchange for profits. And if you won't do it, they'll replace you with someone who will.

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Twitter is falling apart. Reddit is falling apart. Facebook fell apart ages ago. Meta is a trashfire. Instagram is baloney. Google can't even search for anything you want anymore.

You know what website still miraculously works?

Wikipedia.

You should donate to keep it that way.

i made a MASTODON AWESOME MODE userstyle!!!

it makes the background and text cycle the colors of the rainbow slowly, as well as turning everything into comic sans!!!

userstyles are custom CSS thingies you can use with a browser extension like stylus to override the default appearance of a webpage with something prettier

be sure to point it at the URL of your instance in the settings after installing it!!!

https://userstyles.world/style/10367/mastodon-awesome-mode

#mastodon #userstyle #userstyles #CSS #theme